>>12149619I don't know who cleo is
you are right that a community lives and dies by them mods
we have shit moderation on /sci/, and the community is public, so any brainlet can come here and post a thread that will bait 50+ people, while good threads die because science and math isn't as simple a topic as /tv/ or /fit/. The random anons we get here rarely know anything, even about their field of study, so even if a good thread is posted, it's just going to get filled up with randoms who give their baseless opinion.
The good threads usually die before anyone can give a good response, or they require a general (like the math general) that gets a lot of bumps because it's effectively several threads grouped into one.
The point being, 4chan isn't a good community for science and math discussion. Reddit is the same; the top all-time rated threads on r/maths appeal to the lowest common denominator:
- stop telling kids you're bad at math. You are spreading math anxiety 'like a virus.'
- I've just start reading this 1910 book "calculus made easy"
-The first page of my applied math textbook's chapter on rings
-Math is just beautiful
The point being, because science and math requires specialist knowledge, that most people don't have. A public community, in my opinion, will never be any good. It will always be overflowing with the lowest common denominator topics:
- 0.99... = 1?
- monty hall
- venus life
- le ebin popsci video I saw today
- iq threads
- I think I solved [important theorem]! What do I do now?
99% of threads on sci could just be questions asked in Stupid Questions General
I want a good community because I'm self-studying mathematics, and sometimes I want to ask a question of people who are more knowledgeable than me. And I'm interested in discussing the topics that I am knowledgeable on, and helping answering questions
But that's not /sci/, hardly anyone here is worth talking to
It's not reddit, I'm not gonna sift through all the cum from their circle jerk